Laurent Joffrin, editorial director and co-managing partner of Liberation, announced that he was resigning from his functions. The journalist wants to engage in a political career.

Laurent Joffrin, editorial director of the publication and co-managing partner of Liberation, announced this Thursday, July 16, 2020, the start of the log. The journalist wants to engage in politics and more specifically in a refoundation of the left. "In a first time, I'm going to create an association to defend the ideas and define a strategy to re-establish democratic left. This will result in the creation of a new movement. This initiative is a natural outgrowth of the perspective presidential", has he explained to the Figaro. This Sunday, the person concerned will issue to the AFP a "call to the rebuilding of a left that is social, environmentalist, and republican" and will detail his plans during a press conference Monday morning.

Laurent Joffrin said that he would continue to "write for the newspaper [his] letter to political daily", including a compilation will be published in the fall in a book entitled "Anti-Macron", Editions Stock, a title that leaves little room for doubt about the political ambitions of Laurent Joffrin. Anyway, his willingness to get into politics, largely to respond the journalists ' Society and of personal Liberation (SJPL). "Laurent Joffrin wants to do politics, we do journalism. Put before the accomplished fact, the editorial notes that this new personal commitment is incompatible with the pursuit of any activity editorial in Liberation," wrote the collective on Twitter.

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— SJPL (@SJPLibe) July 16, 2020